How to Use metabolic in a Sentence

metabolic

adjective
  • But do these drugs point toward a root cause of metabolic disease?
    — Discover Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • One is the metabolic disease that had brought Colton to the brink of death.
    — Mark Johnson, jsonline.com, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Adding more muscle will also keep your metabolic rate perky, so best to hit the gym.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 1 May 2018
  • There are, of course, changes in the aging body that can impact metabolic rates.
    — Lauren Kim, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • This can improve metabolic health and may help increase weight loss.
    — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Along with these changes, levels of the metabolic products changed, too.
    — Emily Willingham, Scientific American, 19 Aug. 2022
  • But these outliers did not change the overall pattern of metabolic rates over the life span.
    — Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Your metabolic rate is the rate at which your body burns calories to keep you alive and functioning.
    — Dana Santas, CNN, 24 Sep. 2021
  • As a result, both may play a role in improving metabolic health.
    — Mark Gurarie, Health, 31 Jan. 2026
  • In fact, research shows that even small amounts of light at night may be detrimental to sleep and metabolic health.
    — House Beautiful, 8 Apr. 2023
  • The whole idea is to enter a metabolic state known as ketosis, when your body burns fat for fuel.
    — Jaclyn London, Ms, Rd, Cdn, Good Housekeeping, 16 Jan. 2019
  • The thyroid is a gland located in the neck that helps control the body’s metabolic rate.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2021
  • The excrement of beef and dairy cattle is therefore rich in the full range of metabolic volatiles.
    — Harold McGee, Wired, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Patients tend to put on weight and show other signs of metabolic disruption.
    — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • That data says that as that group ate more carbs, their bodies developed more metabolic tools to process them.
    — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The hands-free at-home urine lab fits under your loo’s lid to track metabolic and reproductive health.
    — Jennifer Jolly, USA TODAY, 5 Jan. 2023
  • To test the idea, his team needed a map of the metabolic reactions that occur in nature.
    — Allison Parshall, Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2022
  • At the species level, metabolic rate isn’t the be-all, end-all of extinction — there are a lot of factors at play.
    — Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2018
  • Brown fat cells can change their internal metabolic pathways so as to produce heat, warming up the body.
    — Paul Manger, Quartz, 10 Apr. 2021
  • And then some exercise to rebuild metabolic health.
    — Megan Poinski, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Gakidou said the biggest impact on health has come from a large increase in metabolic risk factors over the last decade.
    — Andrea Kane, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
  • For some people, the devices can provide warning signs of a risk of metabolic disease.
    — Anahad O’Connor New York Times, Star Tribune, 11 Feb. 2021
  • But, the impact of metabolic disease on the body complicates end-of-life care, with wounds as a factor.
    — Julie Roskamp, STAT, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Chappell was diagnosed with metabolic acidosis, which is when there's too much acid in the body.
    — Billy Kobin, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2021
  • For fans, this feels like a metabolic shock, a disruption of the soccer world’s familiar rhythms.
    — Jody Rosen, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Ketosis is a metabolic state in which fat is broken down by the liver and turned into ketones.
    — Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 15 Oct. 2024
  • It was later learned that the man had a metabolic disorder and was then treated at the hospital.
    — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 16 June 2023
  • Part of this is my advancing age and the gradual loss of muscle mass that reduces metabolic rate.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Thus, instead of helping, the immune cells cause further stress in the metabolic tissues.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2025
  • Parents should also try to do family walks early in the morning to get their child’s metabolic rate up.
    — Amber Randall, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Oct. 2020

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